Landscape & Water: Aesthetics of the Rajput-Mughal Imagination with Ursula Weekes
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai and World Monuments Fund in India invite you to an illustrated talk.
date & time
Location
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) 159–161 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Fort, Mumbai 400023
Drawing from paintings and architectural landscapes, the talk will examine how gardens, rivers and water infrastructure were imagined, designed and represented; revealing ideas of beauty, leisure, power and civic duty in the relationship between nature and the built environment.
This conversation resonates with World Monuments Fund (WMF) in India’s work on Cultivating Resilience, which recognizes historic gardens and water systems as important tools for responding to a changing climate. Through the conservation of historic gardens, water channels, tanks, and wells, WMF in India works to revive these living systems, strengthen water resilience and demonstrate how heritage can contribute to climate adaptation today.
The lush charbagh gardens of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya in its Indo-Saracenic heritage precinct provides a fitting backdrop for this talk, connecting historical contexts to modern lived experiences.
About the Speaker:
Ursula Weekes is an independent art historian specializing in Rajput and Mughal art and culture. Educated at St John’s College, Cambridge, and the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she completed her PhD, she has worked at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Delhi where she also taught as guest faculty at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She subsequently spent seven years as Associate Lecturer in Indian Painting at the Courtauld Institute of Art and currently teaches at Radley College in Oxfordshire. Alongside her work as a writer and speaker, Ursula leads tours to India for Steppes Travel. She has published numerous articles and several books and is currently completing a book on Mughal Painting.
Refreshments will be served at 5.30pm
Email asankar@wmf.org to RSVP.
Landscape & Water: Aesthetics of the Rajput-Mughal Imagination with Ursula Weekes
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai and World Monuments Fund in India invite you to an illustrated talk.
date & time
Location
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) 159–161 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Fort, Mumbai 400023
Drawing from paintings and architectural landscapes, the talk will examine how gardens, rivers and water infrastructure were imagined, designed and represented; revealing ideas of beauty, leisure, power and civic duty in the relationship between nature and the built environment.
This conversation resonates with World Monuments Fund (WMF) in India’s work on Cultivating Resilience, which recognizes historic gardens and water systems as important tools for responding to a changing climate. Through the conservation of historic gardens, water channels, tanks, and wells, WMF in India works to revive these living systems, strengthen water resilience and demonstrate how heritage can contribute to climate adaptation today.
The lush charbagh gardens of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya in its Indo-Saracenic heritage precinct provides a fitting backdrop for this talk, connecting historical contexts to modern lived experiences.
About the Speaker:
Ursula Weekes is an independent art historian specializing in Rajput and Mughal art and culture. Educated at St John’s College, Cambridge, and the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she completed her PhD, she has worked at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Delhi where she also taught as guest faculty at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She subsequently spent seven years as Associate Lecturer in Indian Painting at the Courtauld Institute of Art and currently teaches at Radley College in Oxfordshire. Alongside her work as a writer and speaker, Ursula leads tours to India for Steppes Travel. She has published numerous articles and several books and is currently completing a book on Mughal Painting.
Refreshments will be served at 5.30pm
Email asankar@wmf.org to RSVP.